00X/004 future nuclear CATOBAR carrier thread

[HailingTX20]

Latest satellite view of the 004 CVN. It appears that the bow section is starting to be placed into the drydock. Posted by Captain on Weibo.

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Seems to be taken at the same time as this:

 

[Deino]

Seems to be taken at the same time as this:
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Impressive progress ...

 

[00CuriousObserver]

On today's episode of "is this something I should be looking at"

 

[Deino]

Do I miss anything Special?

 

[Blitzo]

Do I miss anything Special?

Not really.

At this point most of the poor quality images and obscured images (whether it's from satellite or taken on the ground) is for archival purposes.

Most of them aren't able to show meaningful change over time due to the resolution.

Most of the pictures probably are not worth sharing on twitter etc either.

 

[00CuriousObserver]

New stern section

 

[mack8]

Posted by Captain.

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[ACuriousPLAFan]

315m × 42.8m × 12.1m

Apparently the second paper using these dimensions

Would be ~104k-107k tons with these numbers, assuming a block coefficient of 0.63-0.65


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Just to add on a little: The Ford CVN has 317 meters of waterline length x 40.8 meters of waterline beam x ~12 meters of waterline draft.

 

[Tomboy]

Just to add on a little: The Ford CVNs have 317 meters of waterline length x 42.8 meters of waterline beam x ~12 meters of waterline draft.

Hence, a full-load displacement estimation of <110 thousand tons should be good (i.e. only slightly heavier than the Ford CVNs).

Isn't Ford and Nimitz only 40.8m in beam?

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Isn't Ford and Nimitz only 40.8m in beam?

My bad, just corrected.